Background
Mexico for a long time has been a staging
and transshipment point for narcotics and contraband destined for U.S. markets
from Mexico itself, South America and elsewhere. Mexico was not only supplying
drugs but alcohol as well during the time where alcohol was not wanted in the
US.
Towards the end of the 1960s, the Mexican narcotic smugglers started to
smuggle drugs on a major scale. Mexico didn’t just start their business with the USA but started a
partnership with Colombia as they were working with merchandise that was way more expensive known
as cocaine. This was easily accomplished because Mexico had long been a major source of heroin and
cannabis, and drug traffickers from Mexico had already established an infrastructure that stood ready
to serve the Colombia-based traffickers. By the mid-1980s, the organizations from Mexico were well-
established and reliable transporters of Colombian cocaine. At first, the Mexican gangs were paid
in cash for the transportation services, but in the late 1980s, the Mexican transport organizations
and the Colombian drug traffickers settled on a payment-in-product arrangement.
Transporters from Mexico usually were given 35% to 50% of each cocaine shipment. This
arrangement meant that organizations from Mexico became involved in the distribution, as well as the
transportation of cocaine, and became formidable traffickers in their own right. Currently, the Sinaloa Cartel
and the Gulf Cartel have taken over trafficking cocaine from Colombia to the worldwide markets. As Cartels
started getting more developed the balance of power between the various Mexican cartels shifts as new ones
emerge and older ones weaken and collapse. When President Vicente Fox was in more violence corrupted as
he had more troops go out and handle the cartels but in 2005 was when the gulf cartel had a big war with the
cartel of Sinaloa and Michoacán cartels. In the beginning only the high class could afford to buy drugs so they
were really the only ones using them. Know there more affordable and a lot more quantity which is the reason
for why more middle and lower class use it.
and transshipment point for narcotics and contraband destined for U.S. markets
from Mexico itself, South America and elsewhere. Mexico was not only supplying
drugs but alcohol as well during the time where alcohol was not wanted in the
US.
Towards the end of the 1960s, the Mexican narcotic smugglers started to
smuggle drugs on a major scale. Mexico didn’t just start their business with the USA but started a
partnership with Colombia as they were working with merchandise that was way more expensive known
as cocaine. This was easily accomplished because Mexico had long been a major source of heroin and
cannabis, and drug traffickers from Mexico had already established an infrastructure that stood ready
to serve the Colombia-based traffickers. By the mid-1980s, the organizations from Mexico were well-
established and reliable transporters of Colombian cocaine. At first, the Mexican gangs were paid
in cash for the transportation services, but in the late 1980s, the Mexican transport organizations
and the Colombian drug traffickers settled on a payment-in-product arrangement.
Transporters from Mexico usually were given 35% to 50% of each cocaine shipment. This
arrangement meant that organizations from Mexico became involved in the distribution, as well as the
transportation of cocaine, and became formidable traffickers in their own right. Currently, the Sinaloa Cartel
and the Gulf Cartel have taken over trafficking cocaine from Colombia to the worldwide markets. As Cartels
started getting more developed the balance of power between the various Mexican cartels shifts as new ones
emerge and older ones weaken and collapse. When President Vicente Fox was in more violence corrupted as
he had more troops go out and handle the cartels but in 2005 was when the gulf cartel had a big war with the
cartel of Sinaloa and Michoacán cartels. In the beginning only the high class could afford to buy drugs so they
were really the only ones using them. Know there more affordable and a lot more quantity which is the reason
for why more middle and lower class use it.
Effects Internationally
The Mexican cartel has affected many places other than Mexico such as Europe, Canada, Philippines, Guatemala, West Africa and the United States.
How it affects the Unites States:
The U.S. Justice Department considers the Mexican drug cartels to be the greatest organized crime threat to the United States.
1) Endangering people
- Mexico lies at the border to the United States and therefore is already endangering citizens of the U.S. living in North America.
2) Money & Trade:
-Mexico is our third largest trading partner.
-Americans are also the Mexican drug cartels’ best customers because there is great demand for drugs.
- 80% of our crystal meth comes from Mexico.
- 14% of our heroin comes from Mexico.
3)American dollars are essentially funding drugs wars, which resulted in the death of over 34,000 people in the past four years and are partly responsible for the situation.
4)Mexico is the biggest buyer of weapons from America.
5) Cartels’ capabilities:
-The power of the drug cartels is horrifying and it is constantly growing.
- Mexico’s biggest drug cartels, Sinaloa and Gulf, have about 100,000 soldiers.
How it affects the Unites States:
The U.S. Justice Department considers the Mexican drug cartels to be the greatest organized crime threat to the United States.
1) Endangering people
- Mexico lies at the border to the United States and therefore is already endangering citizens of the U.S. living in North America.
2) Money & Trade:
-Mexico is our third largest trading partner.
-Americans are also the Mexican drug cartels’ best customers because there is great demand for drugs.
- 80% of our crystal meth comes from Mexico.
- 14% of our heroin comes from Mexico.
3)American dollars are essentially funding drugs wars, which resulted in the death of over 34,000 people in the past four years and are partly responsible for the situation.
4)Mexico is the biggest buyer of weapons from America.
5) Cartels’ capabilities:
-The power of the drug cartels is horrifying and it is constantly growing.
- Mexico’s biggest drug cartels, Sinaloa and Gulf, have about 100,000 soldiers.
Effects
In
Mexico
In
Mexico
The effects that Mexico has faced due to the drug trafficking and drug cartels themselves have been detrimental to the states well being. With an increase in violence, killings and a lack of law enforcement the matter only seems to get worse. Corruption in the Mexican government and law enforcement authorities make Mexico a hub for the worlds’ drug corporation.
- weak judicial institutions and weak law enforcement have made Mexico the hub of one of the worlds’ most sophisticated drug networks
- For decades, drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) used Mexico's entrenched political system to create "a system-wide network of corruption that ensured distribution rights, market access, and even official government protection for drug traffickers in exchange for lucrative bribes,
- In 2008, drug trafficking-related violence was concentrated in a few cities and states. About 60% of the killings took place in three cities: Tijuana (Baja California), Culiacán (Sinaloa), and highly contested Ciudad Juárez (Chihuahua).
- Mexico’s law enforcement and courts have been ineffective in investigating and prosecuting the perpetrators of violence, leaving the DTOs to continue their attacks free of legal consequences.
- Major tourist destinations, such as Acapulco, Cancún, Cuernavaca, Mazatlan, and Taxco, have been hit by violence, and the economically vital tourist industry has been affected. As noted above, tourism along the U.S.-Mexico border has also suffered a dramatic decline because of fears of violence.
- President Calderon deployed 50,000 Mexican military forces—at its height in 2011 reportedly 96,000 troops were engaged—and thousands of federal police around the country to combat the DTOs
- During President Calderón’s six-year term, the brutal violence carried out by the DTOs and other criminal gangs included widely reported attacks on drug rehabilitation centers; attacks on parties of young people; the firebombing of a Monterrey casino in August 2011, killing 52 patrons and employees; and scores of targeted killings of Mexican journalists and media workers
- To publicize their handiwork, the DTOs sometimes display corpses in town centers or on roadsides as in Monterrey in May 2012 when 49 bodies were dumped near a major roadway
- Of the 37 most wanted cartel leaders that Mexico’s government identified in 2009, 25 were either captured or killed during the course of President Calderón’s term in office However, of the dozen DTO leaders or kingpins captured by the Mexican government, reportedly none were effectively prosecuted in Mexico using police-gathered evidence or witness testimony
- The rate of impunity (non prosecution) for murder in Mexico is 81% and higher for other types of crime
- Today, Mexico is a major supplier of heroin to the U.S. market, and the largest foreign supplier of methamphetamine and marijuana. Mexican production of all three of these drugs has increased since 2005
- Officials estimate that the drug trade makes up 3 to 4 percent of Mexico's $1.2 trillion annual GDP—totaling as much as $30 billion—and employs at least half a million people
Mexican Cartel
The Mexican Cartel is a criminal organization that is developed for the primary purpose of promoting and controlling drug trafficking operation. The Mexican Cartel is better known in Mexico as La Mafia (The Mafia or Mob), La Mana (The Bad Manners), or Narcotraficantes (Narco-Traffickers or Narcos) which is the generic term usually used in serval, usually rival, criminal organization that involves the Mexican Cartel.
In Mexico there are a total of Nine Cartel groups called the Sinaloa Cartel, Gulf Cartel, Los Zetas, La Familia Michoacana, Los Caballeros Templarios, Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Juarez Cartel, Beltran-Leyva Cartel, and Tijuana Cartel. However the Tijuana Cartel, Juarez Cartel and La Familia Michoacana are disbanded now.
In Mexico there are a total of Nine Cartel groups called the Sinaloa Cartel, Gulf Cartel, Los Zetas, La Familia Michoacana, Los Caballeros Templarios, Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Juarez Cartel, Beltran-Leyva Cartel, and Tijuana Cartel. However the Tijuana Cartel, Juarez Cartel and La Familia Michoacana are disbanded now.
The Sinaloa Cartel is the worlds most biggest and powerful drug cartel, money laundering and organized crime syndicate. It's base is located in the city of Culiacan, Sinaloa with different operation in the Mexican states of Baja California, Durango, Sonora and Chihuahua. The Sinaloa Cartel is also known the Guzman-Loera Organization and The Pacific Cartel. In the Mexico the cartel has also been called the Federation and the Blood Alliance. From the U.S. Attorney General, the Sinaloa Cartel is the one responsible for importing 200 tons and a large amount of heroin to the U.S between 1990 and 2008.
The Gulf Cartel is the oldest cartel group in Mexico. The currently based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, which is directly across the border from Brownsville, Texas. The Gulf Cartel network is international and are believed to have made deals with other crime groups in Europe, West Africa, Asia, Central America, South America and the United States. The Gulf Cartel has also operated in protection rackets, assassination, extortions, kidnapping, and other crime activities. The Gulf Cartel has also been known for intimidating the population and being very violent.
Fire Arms
The Columbian Drug
cartels were kept under control by the US and other forces, but this led to a
bigger evil right on the border of the US. Mexico’s drug cartels saw the
closing of their Columbian colleagues as an opportunity to grow. As recent as
2006 the Mexican Drug cartels such as Los Zetas, The Sinaloa Cartel and other
large drug moving groups were creating great turmoil in the their country
because of the resistance by the Mexican President, Felipe Calderon. The
violence swept through the country like a mid-western tornado, destroying the
lives of the people. The streets were filled with mutilated corpses reminding
the populous of their “aggressive” behavior.
One of the ways that the cartels would terrorize the people is through gun violence. In 2006 the United States conducted a sting operation that was supposed to catch “straw hat” gun buyers, a straw hat gun buyer is someone who buys firearms from arms dealers in the US and supplies them to the cartels. The sold guns were planted with tracking devices that would unveil the hiding places of the massive drug cartels. A strange thing happened, the guns that were sold didn’t receive any feedback from the tracking devices and over 1000 firearms were lost. Over the years the cartels have improved their arsenal by purchasing their weapons from huge arms dealers in Central and South America. These weapons are military grade fire arms, metal piercing rounds, explosives, and even powerful anti-tank rocket launchers. A lot of weapons have been seized by both US and Mexican governments but the violence still continues.
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Propaganda Of The
Mexican Drug Wars
Propaganda is used for different reasons. For example, to glorify the lives of members in drug cartels, to gain support or raise fear to the citizens, and finally to recruit new members into the cartel. There are many different cartels in the state of Mexico alone. SOme Cartels include the Juarez Cartel, the Knights Templar, and finally Los Zetas. According the wikipedia, "narco" is a word adopted to pertain to anything relating to the cartels, or "Narcocorridos", which are songs created for or about these cartels.
Propaganda can be found on posters, graffiti on the walls, on media, and on the internet. As mentioned before, much of the propaganda was made to glorify the lives of well-known members of the drug cartels and to let everyone know who she or he was. Another form of propaganda was to either get support or raise fear. In the point of raising fear, they usually kill those who talk negatively of the cartel to later show everyone that by disrespecting them can cause you to be killed. There was one incident where a reporter was blogging the reality of the drug cartels and later was found killed and on him written, "internet snitcher" to portray that they did not like the negative attention they had placed on them.
x Finally the last way of using propaganda is to try and recruit new members into the cartel. Most of the time, cartels target high value individuals who will be able to protect or increase their knowledge in a certain way. Most of the time they recruit police officers and government officials. ANother main target for the cartel are young kids in the ages of 14-16. Their strategy is to send them to boot camp at a young age and other workshops as well in order to prepare them for the cartels later on. Some of the trainings that they are sent to include weaponry, martial arts, and hand combat.
Can We Really Stop This Mexican Drug War?
The purpose of this page was to raise awareness and inform our social media visitors, a tip of the iceberg of what really goes down, nationally and internationally. Dug Cartels control every major economy on earth today, therefore, we have come up with goals we wish to reach to try and resolve the Cartel Issues.
Knowing The Facts
Most of the things being showed to us on television is planned out and well thought out by our government. Not everything they say or we see on TV is true. Not even the news. So how can we trust what is being told to us via Television is true?. We can't. One of our goals is to well inform our people. Democracy Now! A a daily progressive nonprofit program does just that. It's aired by more than 1000 radio, television, satellite, and cable TV networks in all of North America. This program is completely funded by contributions from listeners, viewers and foundations, and does not accept government funding. Watch Democracy Now! on the following link below and get the real non-government influenced news.
Link. http://www.democracynow.org/
Say No to Drugs
Staying away from drugs and not purchasing can help slow down the cartel drug sale. Buying drugs feed and contribute to the sales, therefore, creating more demand in drugs, causing even more drugs to be trafficked and sold. This becomes our second goal. Saying No to drugs. This will not only affect the illegal drug sales but will also benefit your health. Drugs are illegal and should not be abused. Save yourself the trouble and don’t do drugs.
Cartel Industries
The Chances are good that you or a family member works in one of the cartel industries listed. Of course you may not have nothing to do with corrupt deal-making, but as a part in the larger system, you are what the drug cartels refer to as a “mule”. You have the case of Bradley Edward Manning, now known as Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, known for releasing classified U.S. government documents to Wikileaks. Learn more about her at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning . This will be our third goal. Watching out for ourselves and our familes so we don't become simple tools.
Constitutional Rights
Our long term goal is to end the Mexican drug war. Back to our question from the beginning of this section. Can we stop the Mexican Drug War? We just might. According to a blog I came across by Blogger David Zuniga, he states, “The key to America’s future is that if enforced, the U.S. Constitution can restore in our generation the liberty that our forefathers enjoyed for two generations after its ratification.” Which I believe make complete sense. By the people for the people!
Knowing The Facts
Most of the things being showed to us on television is planned out and well thought out by our government. Not everything they say or we see on TV is true. Not even the news. So how can we trust what is being told to us via Television is true?. We can't. One of our goals is to well inform our people. Democracy Now! A a daily progressive nonprofit program does just that. It's aired by more than 1000 radio, television, satellite, and cable TV networks in all of North America. This program is completely funded by contributions from listeners, viewers and foundations, and does not accept government funding. Watch Democracy Now! on the following link below and get the real non-government influenced news.
Link. http://www.democracynow.org/
Say No to Drugs
Staying away from drugs and not purchasing can help slow down the cartel drug sale. Buying drugs feed and contribute to the sales, therefore, creating more demand in drugs, causing even more drugs to be trafficked and sold. This becomes our second goal. Saying No to drugs. This will not only affect the illegal drug sales but will also benefit your health. Drugs are illegal and should not be abused. Save yourself the trouble and don’t do drugs.
Cartel Industries
The Chances are good that you or a family member works in one of the cartel industries listed. Of course you may not have nothing to do with corrupt deal-making, but as a part in the larger system, you are what the drug cartels refer to as a “mule”. You have the case of Bradley Edward Manning, now known as Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, known for releasing classified U.S. government documents to Wikileaks. Learn more about her at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning . This will be our third goal. Watching out for ourselves and our familes so we don't become simple tools.
Constitutional Rights
Our long term goal is to end the Mexican drug war. Back to our question from the beginning of this section. Can we stop the Mexican Drug War? We just might. According to a blog I came across by Blogger David Zuniga, he states, “The key to America’s future is that if enforced, the U.S. Constitution can restore in our generation the liberty that our forefathers enjoyed for two generations after its ratification.” Which I believe make complete sense. By the people for the people!